Many words have Trans in them. Transport, translate, transcribe etc
But Cis? Before recently it was only used in one word before it was hailed as “How To Describe Not-Trans People”
A cistern. Ya know, that thing in a toilet
They’re comparing biological women to toilets. Lovely
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“Before recently it was only used in one word before ”
For ‘cis’ as a prefix, you need to understand ‘cislunar’ or ‘cisatlantic.’
It only blows your entire, ignorant argument out your ass.
Pseudolinguistic nonsense, not that it's uncommon for fundamentalists to intently compare them to cars, washing machines or cattle, though. Twitter users seem even dumber than I imagined...
“Cis” is widely used in geography and astronomy: Cisleithania, Cisjordan, cis-Neptunian, etc. It might qualify for #dunning-kruger .
Transhumanism: a theme in the works of Masamune Shirow.
In "Ghost in the Shell", there are men with cyberbrains who like to swap with those of others. Women .
While the cockpits on Tachikomas that Major Motoko Kusanagi & Batou sometimes ride in resemble cisterns, there aren't any toilets that are as sapient as those robots, OP.
And even though their offices have hygiene facilities for their staff, are the C o-operative I nsurance S ociety toilets...?!
To add to @KeithInc., while there are many uses for the term, the most common use of “cistern” has always been “rainwater collection/storage tank”. Sure, it was very common for “water closets¹” to draw their water from a cistern in that sense, especially prior to modern plumbing, but so did the bathtubs and sinks. I suspect they’re thinking cistern means “septic tank”, which says more about them than anything else. [Correction, see below]
¹From what I’ve been able to find, “toilette” originally mean “changing-room table” in the mid-1500s, then it later meant “hygienic cleaning cloth” in the early-1700s, and then became a synonym for “washroom” (and the spelling changed to “toilet” in English) in the mid-1800s, while the “water closet” was a separate section for the “flushing privy / flushing latrine” at first, before referring to the privy/latrine itself… around 1920 the word “toilet” (washroom) started commonly being used to refer to the “water closet” (toilet) and the room itself started being called “restroom” and/or “bathroom”. That’s a long, strange linguistic journey.
[Edit: After posting this, it occurred to me that what I know as a “toilet tank” might technically be called a cistern. After checking, apparently it is. Scratch the part about septic tanks, but it’s still dumb… who even thinks that? I’m not sure whether most people even know that usage.]
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